This week’s 1920’s velvet Rate the Dress pick is inspired by the Baltic Sea.  I’m fascinated by how different the colour of the Baltic is to the Pacific and Abel Tasman seas that I’m used to: so green to their azure.  

This 1920s dress with embroidered chintz peonies was worn by Australian socialite Molly Fink, whose 1915 marriage to Martanda Bhairava Tondaiman, the Raja of  Pudukkottai, caused social scandal and political censure.